Places Lucy DiSanto Wants to Go

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

Walk through a clothing store, across a courtyard, and up several flights of stairs for delicious coffee with a side of beautiful views.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

Feast on Middle Eastern mezze from an Israeli expat duo.

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.